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	Encyclopedia: Bunting (bird)
		The Lark Bunting, Calamospiza melanocorys is an American sparrow Binomial name Emberiza citrinella Linnaeus, 1758 The Yellowhammer, Emberiza citrinella, is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae.
		Binomial name Emberiza cineracea Brehm, 1855 The Cinereous Bunting, Emberiza cineracea, is a bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a passerine family now separated by most modern authors from the finches Fringillidae It breeds in southern Turkey and southern Iran, and winters around the Red Sea in northeast Africa and...
		Binomial name Calcarius lapponicus (Linnaeus, 1758) The Lapland Bunting, Calcarius lapponicus, is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bunting-(bird) (1141 words)

	Bunting (bird) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		They are seed-eating birds with a distinctively shaped bill, and are the Old World equivalents of the species known in North America as sparrows (However, these birds are not closely related to the Old World sparrows which are in the family Passeridae).
		The Lark Bunting, Calamospiza melanocorys is an American sparrow.
		The Lapland Bunting, Calcarius lapponicus, is also known as Lapland Longspur, and is considered under longspurs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bunting_(bird) (155 words)

	Flag Bunting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The bunt is often characterized by the batter turning his body toward the pitcher and sliding one hand up the barrel of the bat to help steady it.
		The Ortolan, or Ortolan Bunting, ''Emberiza hortulana'', is a bird formerly celebrated for the delicate flavour of its flesh, and a member of the bunting family Emberizidae, a passerine family now separated by most modern authors from the finches, ''Fringillidae''.
		This bird is an arctic specialist, with a circumpolar arctic breeding range throughout the northern hemisphere.
	www.blownspeakers.com /pages3/32/flag-bunting.html (1264 words)

	SDNHM Focus on the Indigo and Lazuli Buntings
		The Lazuli Bunting was among the many spring migrants that were unusually prominent in spring 2002, perhaps compelled to seek irrigated developed areas because of drought-induced lack of food in natural habitats.
		The buntings have taken a leading role in compelling ornithologists to look more closely at just which feathers the birds are replacing when, and how the process of molt, a big demand on the physiology of a small bird, fits with the other demands of migration and breeding.
		In some Lazuli Buntings and all Indigo Buntings the body or contour feathers of the juvenile plumage are replaced by the next plumage beginning just a few days after fledging, while the juvenile flight feathers are still growing.
	www.sdnhm.org /research/birdatlas/focus/ind-lazbuntings.html (1250 words)

	The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior - References (Cardinals and Allies) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Population dynamics of Indigo Buntings and the evolution of avian polygyny.
		Emlen, S.T. Migratory orientation in the Indigo Bunting, Passerina cyanea.
		Payne, R.B. Natal dispersal and population structure in a migratory songbird, the Indigo Bunting.
	www.sibleyguides.com /birdlife_references_cardinals.htm (1658 words)

	* Bunting - (Bird): Definition
		This bird breeds across the arctic regions of the world, and, in Canada, its appearance in the more southerly parts of the country heralds the approach of winter...
		The Cirl Bunting is found in western and southern Europe as well as parts of north Africa...
		The cirl bunting may be confused with their close relative, the yellowhammer.
	en.mimi.hu /bird/bunting.html (569 words)

	Colorado State Bird Lark Bunting Calamospiza melancorys
		The Lark Bunting was approved as the official state bird of Colorado by the Twenty-eighth Session of the General Assembly of the State of Colorado on April 29, 1931.
		The lark bunting, scientifically known as calamospiza melancorys stejneger, is hereby made and declared to be the state bird of the state of Colorado.
		State Birds & Flowers 1000-pc Puzzle: Created at the request of The National Wildlife Federation this design is a beautiful and informative puzzle featuring every state bird perched on the appropriate state flower.
	www.netstate.com /states/symb/birds/co_lark_bunting.htm (425 words)

	BirdForum - What bunting
		Yellow.breasted Bunting and Chestnut Bunting are the other possibilities but they can be both ruled out, the latter does not have a yellow collar and the former is far too 'multicoloured' to match your description.
		bunting but the area round the eyes was eye catchingly fl, I thought maybe a young male, I never had a chance / time to get a photo of this one though it showed well over the 2 days to as close as 7mtrs.
		Black-headed Bunting is a good possibility, though it doesn't sound 100% right for this bird, B-hB is same size as Yellowhammer (though size can be very hard to judge on a peculiar habitat like an oil rig!), and females are darkest on the crown, not around the eyes.
	www.birdforum.net /printthread.php?t=5047 (488 words)

	Effects of Management Practices on Grassland Birds: Lark Bunting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Although birds frequently are observed outside the breeding range indicated, the maps are intended to show areas where managers might concentrate their attention.
		Lark Buntings preferred nesting in pasture that was lightly grazed in the summer, followed by pasture that was heavily or moderately grazed in winter, and pasture that was moderately grazed in summer; they were absent from pasture heavily grazed in summer (Giezentanner and Ryder 1969; Giezentanner 1970; Wiens 1970, 1973).
		Lark Buntings are common in CRP and PCP grasslands (Johnson and Schwartz 1993a,b; McMaster and Davis 1998).
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/literatr/grasbird/larb/larb.htm (4829 words)

	Audubon WatchList - Painted Bunting
		An adult male Painted Bunting is arguably the most distinctive songbird in North America, with the combination of a deep blue head, red underparts, a green back, and a red rump.
		In this area, where the buntings have no adaptations to recognize or respond to the cowbirds, parasitism rates are as high as 80%.
		Finally, because of their spectacular appearance, male Painted Buntings are popular as cage birds and in Mexico thousands are taken annually for export to bird dealers in Europe.
	audubon2.org /webapp/watchlist/viewSpecies.jsp?id=156 (1007 words)

	BBC - Devon Great Outdoors - Cirl Bunting makes a comeback following conservation project
		The cirl bunting is one of 39 birds placed on the red list of birds of conservation concern.
		RSPB research proves the cirl bunting needs a supply of large insects, especially grasshoppers, in summer to feed to its chicks, while in winter the bird needs rich sources of seeds.
		The population of the cirl bunting, a sparrow-sized farmland bird, has swelled to almost 700 pairs in South Devon, bucking the overall downward trend for most farmland birds.
	www.bbc.co.uk /devon/outdoors/nature/2003/cirl_bunting.shtml (583 words)

	Bird Quiz Answer 23 ~ American Birding Association
		Our bird also has a dark crown (with buff tips to the crown feathers) that is bordered below by a hint of grayish coloration.
		Snow Bunting and McKay's Buntings are similar, but again, would show much more white in the tail, indeed be much whiter overall.
		This is a fairly typical 1st winter Brown-capped Rosy-Finch, with an indistinct head pattern, frosty pattern to the upperparts and relatively white patches to the wings.
	www.americanbirding.org /photoquiz/quizans23.html (543 words)

	LARK BUNTING AMONG BIRD SPECIES SUFFERING IN SHORT-GRASS HABITAT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The lark bunting suffered an average 3.1 percent annual decline in observations taken from 1967 to 1991, said Jim Bradley, the short-grass prairie coordinator for the Colorado Bird Observatory.
		The selection of the lark bunting as the state bird in 1931 was actually a contentious issue for the Colorado Assembly, and was preceded by at least two votes by school children to select the state bird.
		Small flocks of these birds are present in breeding grounds, and it is often possible to see more than one breeding male rise up to a height of 30 feet giving a pleasant song consisting of clear notes, trills and harsher notes.
	www.dnr.state.co.us /cdnr_news/wildlife_news/960022.html (631 words)

	Snow Bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis
		The birds, wanderers from Iceland and even Greenland, were attracted to the beaches and denes, to Breydon estuary wall and saltings and to the surrounding marshes inland as far as the Halvergate/Stracey Arms marsh road.
		With shrill twittering, the birds tumbled earthward, suddenly landing among the flint-stones.
		This was impossible terrain for siting nets, but by the next month the buntings had exhausted food supplies on the beach and began alternating between a salicornia-covered mud-flat and ploughed land.
	www.birdsofbritain.co.uk /bird-guide/snow-bunting.htm (459 words)

	Song Bird Coffee - Birds: Indigo Bunting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		In fact, the bird has no blue pigment at all – light refraction gives the feathers a blue coloration.
		The bird is usually seen singing from a high perch or in poor light and appears as a fl silhouette, relying on perfect lighting conditions to reveal his bright turquoise-blue color.
		hen the young have grown strong and the male is dressed in his brown fall plumage, the birds leave for central Mexico and the West Indies and head south to central Panama.
	www.songbirdcoffee.com /birds_indigo.html (288 words)

	Bunting Bird (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		They are seed -eating birds with a distinctivelyshaped bill, and are the Old World equivalents of the species known in North America as Sparrows(However, these birds are not closely related to the Old World sparrows which are inthe family Passeridae).
		Birds are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrates characterized primarilyby feathers, forelimbs modified as wings, andhollow bones.
		Birds are a very differentiated class, with some feeding on nectar, seeds, insects, rodents, fish, carrion, or other birds.
	www.swingdancemusic.com /send/30755-bunting%20bird.html (445 words)

	BUNTING - Definition
		bunting, buntyle; of unknown origin.] (Zo["o]l.) A bird of the genus {Emberiza}, or of an allied genus, related to the finches and sparrows (family {Fringillid[ae]}).
		Note: Among European species are the common or corn bunting ({Emberiza miliaria}); the ortolan ({E.
		American species are the bay-winged or grass ({Po["o]c[ae]tes or Po[oe]cetes gramineus}); the fl-throated ({Spiza Americana}); the towhee bunting or chewink ({Pipilo}); the snow bunting ({Plectrophanax nivalis}); the rice bunting or bobolink, and others.
	www.hyperdictionary.com /dictionary/bunting (148 words)

	David Sibley - Painted Bunting (5/8)
		Range/Habitat: The Painted Bunting breeding range is divided into western and eastern populations.
		Primary threats are loss and degradation of breeding habitat due to development of swampy thickets and woodland edges, nest parasitism by Brown-headed and Bronzed Cowbirds, and capture by the hundreds every year as cage birds on tropical wintering grounds.
		What TNC is Doing: Wings of the Americas’ Gulf Wings initiative seeks to identify and protect the most important and often overlooked stopover habitats for the more than 260 migratory species, including the Painted Bunting, that make the annual migration journey across or around the Gulf of Mexico.
	nature.org /initiatives/programs/birds/sibley/animals/art5629.html (233 words)

	Bird Photograph and Song: Indigo Bunting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The male Indigo Bunting is a rich, deep blue all over, but may appear dark and flish in poor light.
		A popular memory-phrase for the song is "fire-fire, where-where, here-here, seeit-seeit." Indigo Buntings frequent forest clearings and second-growth habitat in the East and Midwest.
		Learn to identify birds by their sounds using Lang's comprehensive new audio guide to the songs and calls of 372 species.
	www.naturesound.com /birds/pages/bunting.html (155 words)

	Lark Bunting
		Some early ornithologists initially thought the Lark Bunting was related to the Bobolink, a member of the flbird family with similarly fl and white males and brown striped females.
		Like other open country birds, flock movements often take a rolling form, with birds from the rear of the flock flying over those in the front.
		Male Lark Buntings in breeding plumage are unmistakable.
	www.birds.cornell.edu /BOW/LARBUN (672 words)

	ADW: Passerina cyanea: Information
		Indigo buntings breed in brushy and weedy habitats along the edges of farmed land, woods, road, power lines, railways and riparian habitats.
		Adult male indigo buntings are brilliant blue during the breeding season, with a darker almost purple crown.
		Indigo buntings are migratory, and may fly as far as 2000 miles between their wintering and breeding grounds.
	animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu /site/accounts/information/Passerina_cyanea.html (1275 words)

	Lapland Bunting, Calcarius lapponicus
		Nowadays, Lapland buntings make fairly frequent visits to our East Anglian beaches and adjoining wastelands between and middle of September and the end of November, as birds of passage lingering for a while to feed on weed seeds with other visitors from the far north, such as snow buntings and shorelarks.
		Lapland buntings breed on the rolling circumpolar tundras and mossy moors north of the Baltic and across Siberia eastwards to Greenland.
		They are ground birds, with very long hind toes and claws, like those of skylarks, and they have a habit of running about like wagtails, though without flicking their tails.
	www.birdsofbritain.co.uk /bird-guide/lapland-bunting.htm (444 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		From lehmfinn@algorithms.com Wed Mar 04 05:28:19 1998 Concerning the "mystery" bunting photogrpahed in winter in Santa Barbara, California, and posted on Joe Morlan's web page, and analyzed by Michael Patten, I believe this is a bird I saw when I was still living in California.
		Here are some various thoughts and observations: The bird was found by Shawneen Finnegan and seen by a fair number of folks over its only-two-day stay in January 1993.
		To my eye, the biggest problem with Indigo and Lazuli is NOT with birds that look like this one, but with dull Indigos: birds that don't show particular warmth to the upperparts, and whose wingbars are fairly thin and definitely more off-whitish than rich buff.
	fog.ccsf.org /~jmorlan/paul.txt (331 words)

	indigo bunting on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Female buntings from hybridizing populations prefer conspecific males.
		Short-term breeding bird response to two harvest practices in a bottomland hardwood forest.
		Predation on birds by a Cuckoo (Cuculidae), Mockingbird (Mimidae), and Saltator (Cardinalidae).
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/x/x-indigobu.asp (347 words)

	Lark Bunting - Colorado State Bird - Birding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The lark bunting is the state bird of Colorado.
		This bird is about 6" long and is fl with white wing edges.
		Lark buntings have up to two sets of chicks each season, laying the little blue eggs in grass nests on the ground.
	www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art24221.asp (103 words)

	FifthDayCreations - Indigo Bunting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Indigo Buntings feeds upon a variety of insects, larvae, dandelion seeds, weed seeds, grass seeds, grains and wild berries.
		The Indigo Bunting is found in woodlands and overgrown field in the east and south.
		The young birds are brooding by the female and leave the nest after 9-12 days.
	www.fifthdaycreations.com /article/indigobunting.asp (271 words)

	Painted Bunting Species Account - Florida Breeding Bird Atlas
		The Painted Bunting is a small, brilliant songbird of the southern United States and northern Mexico.
		According to Stevenson and Anderson (1994), Painted Buntings have been observed in June and July in Key West or on the Dry Tortugas; therefore, some of the "possible" and "probable" breeding records in the Panhandle may also refer to migrants or vagrants.
		Like the Indigo Bunting and Blue Grosbeak, the Painted Bunting is establishing breeding populations in abandoned citrus groves in central Florida, but this expansion is currently limited to Volusia, Seminole, and Brevard counties.
	www.wildflorida.org /bba/pabu.htm (473 words)

	Colorado State Bird - Prairie Lark Finch -Calamospiza Melanocorys
		From its general appearance, and especially from what is known of its habits, I consider it closely allied to the Rice Bunting, Dolichonyx oryzivora; I have adopted the appellation given by its discoverers, the latter of whom has favoured me with the following notice respecting it.
		In this situation they pour forth a number of very lively and sweetly modulated notes, and at the expiration of about a minute descend to the ground, and course about as before.
		NUTTALL'S notice respecting it is as follows:--"On the 24th of May, soon after crossing the north branch of the Platte, we met with this very interesting species of Fringilla.
	www.50states.com /bird/larkfinc.htm (903 words)

	BBC - Devon - Great Outdoors - RSPB's efforts to help the rare cirl bunting bird population in Devon
		Yet at one time, the bird was widesprad across the whole of southern Britain.
		A 10-year recovery programme with farmers, begun in 1989, saw the number of breeding birds increase from a 130 to 450.
		The bird can live in built up areas or alongside busy roads but are threatened if their natural habitat is lost to building development.
	www.bbc.co.uk /devon/outdoors/nature/cirl_bunting.shtml (388 words)

	Bunting, Birds, Bunting, Bird Pictures, Catalog, Encyclopedia
		Among the buntings of Passerina, the males are bright blue, red, or green and the females are brown, gray, or green.
		In Emberiza, the males are typically patterned in fl, white, yellow, or rust, and the females are usually brown with streaks.
		Unlike other buntings, the snow bunting is mostly white.
	www.4to40.com /earth/geography/htm/birdsindex.asp?counter=14 (95 words)

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